WOMEN’S action on day six of the Australian Open is headlined by Victoria Azarenka, Ana Ivanovic, Madison Keys, Garbiñe Muguruza, Angelique Kerber and Karolina Pliskova.

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Third seed Muguruza crashes out

Garbine Muguruza has crashed out of the Australian Open, going down 6-3 6-2 to 48th-ranked Czech Barbara Strycova.

The Spaniard became the 22st women’s seed to make an exit from the tournament in 76 minutes.

Strycova got an early break and while Muguruza wasted no time getting the set back on serve, things didn’t improve from there, with unforced errors far outweighing her impressive winner count.

It is Strycova’s best performance at a grand slam, having made the third round last year, and admitted she was “very happy”.

“The plan was to play the best tennis I can and hang in there, but I thought I was playing pretty good and I was playing also very deep balls, which was working,” she said.

“I felt good on court today.”

Strycova will play Victoria Azarenka in the next round.

Brit breaks fourth round drought

It’s taken almost 20 years, but Great Britain has a woman in the Australian Open fourth round, thanks to Johanna Konta.

Konta – the first British woman to make the fourth round since 1987 - made short work of Czech Denisa Allertova, winning 6-2 6-2, but she said the scoreboard was no reflection of how hard she had to work.

“It was not easy out here today,” she said.

“She’s an incredibly tough opponent and I had an incredibly tough match against her last year at the French Open, so I knew I really had to run down every single ball. It definitely wasn’t easy.”

Konta, who was born in Australia, has been rapt with the support she has received on her former home soil.

“It is a home for me so thank you to everybody for coming out, whether you’re Australian or British, thank you for supporting me throughout this whole week so far,” she said.